Keyword: «design and technological skills»

In the modern system of education, the issues of organizing technological education are of particular relevance, including training of students for solving design and technology concerning tasks, due to the priority of this direction of the country's economy development, which determines the relevance of the study. In this connection, the need to find approaches to the systemic formation of relevant skills is growing, including the stage of primary general education. The solution of design and technological tasks for primary school students can be considered as a leading means of developing creative abilities of a person and the formation of motivation for professional activities in the sphere of design and technology in future. Learning modern methods of creating new technical solutions produces a developing effect on the personality of a younger schoolchild, as it helps to change his/her perception of technical objects, helps to overcome inertia of thinking, improves attention concentration skills, helps to establish personality traits such as determination and will in setting and achieving goals. The system of formation and development of students’ design and technological skills should be continuous, starting from school age and ending with self-education after university graduation. Despite rather great interest in theory and practice to the development of the aspect under consideration, it is necessary to examine in more detail the essential characteristic of the process of teaching primary school children to gain skills for solving design and technology concerning tasks. Based on the principles of the activity oriented approach, the authors examine characteristic features of design and technology concerning tasks as one of the types of educational tasks that are solved in the framework of technological education of students in primary school. Thus, the purpose of the article was to reveal the essential characteristics of the process of teaching primary school children to gain skills for solving design and technology concerning tasks which will be necessary for the effective development of their relevant activities. The basic approaches to the formation of the considered skills in children of primary school age are analyzed, the main stages of this process organization are highlighted. The content of the article will be useful in the work of primary school teachers in the process of planning training sessions with students, working out technical tasks, including organization of extracurricular activities, as well as for additional education teachers.